Sunday, January 8, 2012
7:30pm
Admission: $5.00
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
Six-String Samurai
Since the internet tells us that the world will be ending this December, we figured we'd kick off 2012 with a movie that shows what things might look like one year from now?
The Six-String Samurai is Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the post-apocalyptic future, who must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a bothersome orphan kid if he's ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a cannibalistic "Cleaver" family, a Windmill God and even the Russian army. Winding up at the gates of Vegas, Buddy finds himself in an epic battle with Death over the child's soul and comes to realize just what it means to be King.
"It's The Road Warrior with a rock 'n' roll beat, Buddy Holly doing his best Toshiro Mifune, a Sergio Leone gang picture set in a fantasy future, directed with the flash and panache of a Hong Kong action flick and the sleek style of a samurai film. Lance Mungia's high energy genre soup is a hoot, a low budget indie action film that embraces its limitations with a spare grunge-chic look spiced with flashy visuals, jazzy editing, and plenty of punk attitude." - Nitrate Online
Advance Tickets Available Here
Sunday, January 15, 2012
7:30pm
Admission: $5.00
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
Never Make it Home/Split Lip Rayfield
A new documentary from GJ Echternkamp (director of "Frank and Cindy")!!
Kirk Rundstrom was given two months to live. So he booked a tour.
After ten years of constant touring, with four critically acclaimed albums under their belt, Wichita "insurgent country" band Split Lip Rayfield had built up a dedicated legion of fans throughout the world.
With their lively combo of guitar, mandolin, banjo, gas-tank bass, multi-part harmonies, and singing often bordering on screaming, Split Lip's music defied genres-too raucous to be bluegrass, too acoustic to be rock 'n' roll, and too melodic to be punk.
But in 2006, Kirk Rundstrom, the electric, hell-raising singer/guitarist of the band, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only two months to live. "Never Make It Home" is the inspiring story of what he chose to do next.
Advance Tickets Available Here
Sunday, January 22, 2012
7:30pm
Admission: Free (donations accepted - cash only at the door)
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
In conjunction with SacMod, The American Institute of Architects Central Valley and Sactown Magazine.
Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end." It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life - and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
As a young man, Lautner broke from his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright, and went west to California to forge his own architecture. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally - monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. It was a life in pursuit of beauty.
Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner's dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Other voices join him: comments from Frank Gehry and his peers who were influenced by Lautner, the emotional memories of original clients, owners and builders, the remarks of Frank Escher, the architect who restored the Chemosphere house, and Julius Shulman who famously photographed all the great modernists.
To rsvp online (and to make an online donation for this screening) go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/212743
Sunday, January 29, 2012
7:30pm
Admission: $5.00
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
Encore screening. With recent pending legislation in the U.S. such as SOPA and PIPA*, it's a good time to revisit this documentary we originally showed in 2009. The film itself was created before these bills existed but it is a good primer on issues like media control and fair use within (and outside of) the internet, and is relevant now more than ever.
About the film-
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
* Information about SOPA (H.R.3261) and PIPA (S.968) at OpenCongress.org.
